It was the 15th of May 2024 when the NGI Sargasso project closed its Open Call 3 with 73 submitted proposals of Transatlantic teams willing to create a more human-centric Internet for our future generations.

Each one of the submitted applications have been carefully reviewed by external evaluators to finally select 11 of them who will join the NGI Sargasso Innovators Portfolio. They will start their Transatlantic journey onboarding the NGI Sargasso OnCampus Program on the 5th of September 2024 to enjoy the NGI Sargasso funding program benefits, including:

  • Up to €100,000 equity-free funding.
  • Mentoring and coaching services.
  • Up to 9-month capacity-building program, with e-lessons and inspirational talks from industry and business experts and access to international events.
  • Membership to the NGI – The Next Generation Internet Community.

Keep reading to discover more and, if you want to be like them, mark the following date in your calendar: the 23rd of September 2024, because we will launch our last open call, the Open Call 5. 

1. EeDP – Empowering eDemocracy for Peace

EeDP is a collaborative project between ZKorum (France) and IoTeeDom (USA) to foster peaceful community dialogues and enhance civic participation in Ghana and the USA ahead of the presidential elections by leveraging Digital Identity and Decentralized Technologies.

ZKorum is building an open-source, privacy-preserving, and verifiable social network designed to enhance civic participation, foster community dialogues, and bridge the gap between local governments and citizens. Within the scope of this proposal, ZKorum is partnering with IoTeeDom to facilitate dialogues aimed at building smart, peaceful, and sustainable cities in anticipation of the USA and Ghanaian presidential elections between November and December 2024.

2. FVCP – Facilitate Verifiable Credentials Presentation Across Borders

Elevating Lives. Securing Connections.

FVCP will define and develop a framework for wallet and credential interoperability between different decentralized identity (DID) ecosystems, allowing one ecosystem to process credentials from wallets from another ecosystem in a semantically meaningful way with some level of assurance.

3. SafeMode – Empowering Commercial Drivers: Harnessing Next Generation Internet to Enhance Safety, Trust, and Environmental Sustainability

Empowering drivers with control over their data through SafeMode’s AI, enhancing privacy, trust, and safety in digital automotive environments.

SafeMode collaborates with ICS to boost data sovereignty and privacy in fleet management using AI, aligned with NGI principles. This initiative sets new global standards for transparency and safety, leveraging ICS’s network of 60,000 drivers and piloting with Amazon’s delivery network to deploy human-centric technology.

4. NG Docu Vault – Next Generation Docu Vault

Creating an inclusive, blockchain-enabled document management system for immigrants, ensuring data sovereignty and seamless identity verification across EU, USA, and Canadian standards, with Docu Assist, an AI-driven multilingual and barrier-free interface for legal guidance.

NG Docu Vault introduces a blockchain-based document management system, paired with ‘Docu Assist,’ an AI-driven multilingual smart assistant. This setup ensures data sovereignty and seamless identity verification but also facilitates secure document exchanges between immigrants and governmental bodies across the EU, USA, and Canada. The intuitive GUI supports document storage, sharing and retrieval, while the chatbot offers legal assistance, promoting a compliant and inclusive digital environment.

5. LeLink – LeLink

LeLink is an innovative project integrating AI and blockchain technology to enhance healthcare access and ensure data sovereignty for refugees and displaced individuals in crisis situations.

LeLink leverages advanced blockchain and AI technologies to enhance healthcare access for refugees and displaced individuals by ensuring secure, immediate access to medical services and robust data privacy. This scalable platform is designed to optimize emergency responses and uphold data sovereignty, improving healthcare outcomes in crisis situations and supporting seamless integration into existing health systems.

6. GALICIA – Generative AI with Cybersecurity for Internet Applications Development

GALICIA addresses the risks and challenges posed by Generative AI on digital resilience, i.e., the ability of an infrastructure to avoid unexpected disruptions and continue operating when faced with adversity that could otherwise compromise its reliability, safety, security, and usability.

GALICIA will test a novel approach to digital resilience verification by testing LLM generated code for correctness and security on a set of case studies, aiming to ensure compliance with user requirements and given standards. The ambition is to verify source code generated by Generative AI and analyze its limits, thus building trust in Generative AI. GALICIA aligns with the increasing demand for compliance in industrial automation and the need for fast and low cost software production.

7. EVI US Pilot – Electric Vehicle Identity US Pilot

EVI streamlines payment and charging session initiation in EV charging stations, while minimizing personal data dissemination. Within the NGI Sargasso project, the research team will adapt and test EVI decentralized digital identity wallets and verifiable credentials in pilot locations in New York State, USA.

EVI US Pilot is a privacy enhanced dapp to minimize dissemination of personal data to third parties when transacting in Public Electric Vehicle Charging Stations. Securely storing vehicle certificates linked to users’ digital wallets will eliminate the need to sign up with different applications to access charging stations of different OEMs and CPOs. The dapp will be designed to limit what data can be extracted when an electric vehicle is plugged in the charging station to protect drivers’ privacy.

8. TruPS – Enhancing Trusted Transatlantic Data Processing and Storage with Fully Homomorphic Encryption

Keep your options open and your data secure with TruPS, a legally compliant solution for transatlantic data processing and storage.

TruPS seeks to strengthen EU-USA collaborations by employing Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) for data processing and storage. This project will create a secure, privacy-preserving solution for cross-border data processing and storage. TruPS will address both EU and USA legal regulations, pivotal for enhancing mutual trust and ensuring compliance with stringent data protection regulations, and thus empowering the users with more options for secure and regulatory-compliant data governance.

9. GMM – A Global Market Maker for Decentralized Token Exchanges

The project aims to design and build an automatic pricing algorithm for decentralized exchanges immune to manipulation that utilizes available blockchain information to minimize transaction costs as well as losses from price swings while improving the protection against price manipulation attacks.

GMM is an interdisciplinary project through which computer scientists and economists join forces to design and build a truly global decentralized exchange (DEX) for cryptographic tokens. The key innovation in GMM is the use of all the reserves available blockchain-wide to compute tokens’ prices. By leveraging a larger pool of reserves, the GMM exhibits more stable prices than current DEXs, offering enhanced users’ protection against price manipulation attacks as well as reduced operational costs.

10. POSIDONIA – POSition Information with Digital Twin Offloading in Trustworthy Next-Generation Internet Applications

POSIDONIA is a Digital Twin (DT)-empowered network architecture aimed at providing trustworthy and sustainable Location Based Services (LBS) in Internet of Things (IoT) scenarios. Threat mitigation is opportunistically performed either at the local IoT or the Fog-Edge-Cloud continuum.

Within the NGI vision, POSIDONIA tackles a green and human-centric network design for heterogeneous scenarios supported by the Fog-Edge-Cloud continuum. In particular, POSIDONIA envisions a distributed network architecture to provide trustworthy and sustainable LBS in IoT scenarios where threat mitigation is opportunistically offloaded between the local network and its core infrastructure. Therefore, POSIDONIA integrates DTs to ensure interoperability and computationally-heavy operations.

11. IOTPAY – Internet of Things Payment System

IOTPAY aims to build a secure and interoperable decentralized payment ecosystem for connected objects, reducing fraud, errors, and enhancing efficiency.

IOTPAY is dedicated to developing a robust, interoperable decentralized payment ecosystem specifically designed for IoT devices. By harnessing blockchain technology, IOTPAY significantly reduces fraud and errors while boosting operational efficiency. This innovative platform ensures seamless, secure transactions between connected devices, paving the way for a smarter, more reliable digital economy.